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364. barrels of culm, at 45. 7300 



The quarry is i mileEnglifh from the kiln ; two 



horfes and two men drawing ftone, at i8s. a 



week - - - 46 16 o 



Two men quarrying, 55. a week to one, and 35. 



a week to the other 20 16 o 



Breaking and burning, 8s. a week - - 20 16 o 

 Gunpowder, is. a month - - o 12 o 



24 waggon-load of coal cinders, bought at Corke, 



at i os. 12 o o 



One horfe and man carries out 24 barrels a day, 



at is. 6d. 242 days - 18 i o 



Total 



The quantity of lime drawn from February 

 i777toFeb. 1778 was 5824barrels, theexpenfe 

 therefore jufc 8d. a barrel. One Corke barrel s of 

 culm, at 45. ufed every day, and half a barrel of 

 am.es : the kiln draws 18 barrels a day, 16 for i 

 of culm, and i o for i including cinders. This 

 barrel of culm is 6 bufhels heaped. Mr. Oli- 

 ver had an old memorandum, that the price 

 of fuel was three-pence farthing per barrel of 

 lime. Twelve tons of lime-ftone produces 50 

 barrels of roach lime. Nor does the arch- 

 deacon trufl to lime alone; he buys great quan- 

 tities of dung and foap afhes in Corke. At 

 the fame time I viewed his turnip crops on his 

 home farm, and found them excellent, and 

 many oxen tied in flails fattening on them, a 

 practice he finds exceedingly profitable j when 



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